>>518938784
revisionist crap.
Why are you buying into this shit? Are you a desperate Russkie? Their economy was unimaginably bad before Gorbachev took office. His "mistake" was to not be an economic, psychological and military genius and to come up insted with fairly normal ideas to save the "union".
Imagine a zone where it's not even a secret that you're a satellite satrapy, you're there to get pilfered and your worst elements, their lackeys are in charge.
Imagine zero incentives to innovate, or even to be reasonable.
Imagine zero real markets. Most of us are here on the same page regarding fake and gay economics. But obviously, while money is (mostly)fake and markets can be easily manipulated, the SU ideology was far worse than that. Some guy in a bureau dictates a factory must produce x even though they lack logistics, workers, knowhow, incentive, pay. And product x is part of a humongous chain managed by midwit burocrats who themselves have zero drive, education, critical thought and get paid as much as everybody else, which is very little. Everybody is just going through the motions.
The only decent economic issue Russia did manage to drive forwards for the last hundred years is the war business. They make decent weapon systems, some better, some worse. But again, this cannot sustain you. Duh, comrade.